Mochi - a celebration

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Let us praise this, one of the most delectable of sweetmeats.

http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~sasaya/syashin/kuri-mochi.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

ooh this makes me want to play katamari damacy.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i laughed quite a bit at the scene in tampopo in which the old man chokes on his greedily gulped mochi. the joke was on me several years later when i tried it for the first time and practically needed the heimlich.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

hmmmmmmm. do you like the one with the powder - i don't know how to call the powder in english alas? it looks brown/orangy. i like how it sticks to your tongue.

apparently a few people die every year of choking on a mochi. :-(

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

The Japanese restaurant I ate at last night was out of the green tea Mochi! Boo to that. I was even prepared to pay their ridiculous $3.50 price tag!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

We get a version of Mochi semi-regularly, just plain rice. We slide it into little strips off a big chunk, then heat it up in the toaster over, and it puffs right up. Yum!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a huge fan of this, but maybe I just haven't had good Mochi yet?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

trader joe's has mango & green tea . . . but i recently saw coffee & red bean in a store!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

TJ's also has strawberry and chocolate. Haven't tried any of them yet.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

To ensure long life,you are supposed to stretch the mochi with your chopsticks as you bite into it. The longer it stretches, the longer you'll live. Ironically, since mochi is very chewy, every year there are news reports about the deaths of people who choke on their long-life mochi!

― come on sock it to me, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

hmmmmmmm. do you like the one with the powder - i don't know how to call the powder in english alas? it looks brown/orangy.

That's warabi mochi. My gig of the year in 2004 was a teahouse laptop extravangza entirely dedicated to the celebration of warabi mochi. Description here, including this video clip of Yuko Nexus6 singing a warabi mochi song.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

It really was 'Mochi - a celebration'. Here's another clip of Yuko Nexus6, this time manipulating a tape of a warabi mochi street hawker's cry by strewing it around the teahouse and rubbing it against the tape heads.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

the best is the hot kind you get on a stick (i had this a few times from the street vendors in kyoto). it's got the consistency of taffy but is unsweetened (just a mochi/tamari flavor).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Anyone remember the Dango San Kyodai?

http://www.tokyowithkids.com/entertainment/dango.html

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

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